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Privacy Policy

Last updated January 27, 2026

This website is intended for grown-ups, so if you’re under 18, please make sure that your parent or guardian has read and agreed to these terms before you use it, because we don’t want to get yelled at.

PETA Kids is a trade name of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. PETA Kids believes strongly in protecting the privacy of any personal information gathered from visitors to PETAKids.com and has created this privacy policy to explain how we collect, store, adapt or alter, use, and disseminate personal information that can be linked to an individual (“Personal Information”).

This policy applies only to PETAKids.com. It does not apply to:

  • Any other website operated by PETA with a different or with no privacy policy, including PETA.org
  • The collection of Personal Information by third parties, including through any service, app, code, or external website (PETA Kids doesn’t control those, so please review the privacy policies of any third-party feature you use to see how your Personal Information will be used. Some content is displayed on PETAKids.com, using the following third-party features: YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.)

What categories of Personal Information does PETA Kids collect?

We may ask for your contact information—such as your name, mailing address, and e-mail address as well as your age and information about your animal rights activism—when you fill out a form and for payment information when you make a contribution to us.

How may PETA Kids use my Personal Information?

We may process your Personal Information to do what you ask us to do or comply with a legal obligation, such as:

  • Allowing you to participate in contests, surveys, petitions, and giveaways
  • Sending you information and other materials in the mail
  • Completing a donation submission
  • Letting you send personalized e-mail messages
  • Subscribing you to receive e-mails from PETA Kids, which may include details about our campaigns, contests, events, activities, and alerts as well as information about like-minded organizations and companies
  • To allow you to use, view content from, and interact with third-party features on the PETA Kids website, like YouTube and Instagram
  • To comply with a law or court order

If you provide us with your e-mail address, you’ll be signed up to receive e-mail messages from PETA Kids. You may subscribe to or unsubscribe from any e-mail communication from us at any time through various mechanisms, including by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in an e-mail from us or e-mailing us at [email protected].

We may share your information with our supporting organization to satisfy a mailing request or IT question.

How does PETA Kids protect my Personal Information?

We at PETA Kids are extremely protective of any Personal Information gathered through our website, which has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our web server is located in a locked, secure environment.

When you contribute to PETA Kids online, we use a secure server and encryption to protect your financial and other Personal Information during transmission.

How do I ask PETA Kids to correct, stop using, and/or delete my Personal Information?

E-mail your request to [email protected] or call 757-622-7382, and a representative will be in touch.

I am a resident of a state that has a law regulating data privacy. What else do I need to know?

This website is intended for adults in any state with an applicable data privacy law and has been modified accordingly for visitors in those states. We comply with state laws applicable to our use of your Personal Information in accordance with the Data Privacy Laws Addendum in the PETA Privacy Policy. Please review this addendum to find out more about your rights and how to exercise them. A parent or guardian can exercise the rights of their child.

We do not knowingly process the Personal Information of users who are under the age of 18 or residents of states with privacy laws without the consent of the user’s parent or guardian. PETA Kids does not sell or process information for targeted advertising or engage in profiling or other automatic decision-making with respect to any Personal Information we collect from visitors to this website. PETA Kids does not knowingly process Personal Information deemed “sensitive” under applicable data privacy laws except for the Personal Information of a child under the age of 13 with the consent of the child’s parent or legal guardian. Please e-mail [email protected] if you think you may have shared with PETA any Personal Information that could be deemed “sensitive” under an applicable data privacy law.

How can I ask PETA Kids more questions about this policy or my Personal Information?

E-mail [email protected], call 757-622-7382, or send a letter to the address below, and a representative will be in touch.

PETA Kids
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510